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SETTLEMENT;
TOO "YUNG" (YOUNG) FOR MEDICARE
Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe
Syosset, New York
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1964 Frank Sinatra recorded the best-known version of "Fly Me to the Moon" in the album, "It Might As Well Be Swing"
2012 Newt Gingrich, the GOP presidential primary candidate, wants to build a permanent colony on the moon.
Yes, Newt wants to eventually turn the moon into a bustling "turist" (tourist) destination and hopes to use it for commercial purposes, including science and manufacturing.
Leo Rosten ("The Joys of Yiddish") wrote, "Who has EPPES an idea?" (Who has any kind of an idea, please?) Newt does!
Newt said, "I was attacked the other night [at the CNN debate in South Carolina] for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose." He added, "Does that mean I'm visionary? You betcha."
The cost: Somewhere between $250 billion and $500 billion, according to John Logsdon. And when there are 13,000 people on the moon, they can petition to become a state.
Some people say it's a mistake to "lakhn" (laugh) and discount his concept of a Lunar Base. "This isn't funny; this is the future," said one individual. "People sure mocked Columbus and early explorers at the time and look how that worked out!" (FYI: The Yiddish words meaning to mock are "makhn khoyzek fun.")
Ron Paul (at a Florida debate) said, "I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there."
And John McCain couldn't resist saying, "I think we ought to send Newt Gingrich to the moon and Mitt Romney to the White House."
Jon Stewart lambasted Gingrich for proposing such an idea, and Charles Ulysses Feney wrote:
A Lunar Commute for Newt
A philandering politician named Newt
Who's really just a talking empty suit
Wants a getaway upon the moon
So he and Calista can spoon
After Stepford Wife finishes playing his
skin flute!......
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Marjorie Wolfe is getting a size 5 space suit
ready...
AND GIVING IT TO 45-YEAR-OLD,
CALLISTA GINGRICH..
She wonders how it will look with her trademark pearls.
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